Managing IT infrastructure efficiently is critical for enterprises to go beyond ‘business as usual’. Today, enterprises are demanding a robust IT infrastructure setup that delivers high performance, keeps real time inventory of IT hardware and software, streamlnes work flows and eliminates avoidable expenditure. Here’s how Mindtree collaborated with a leader in equity space and delivered operational efficiency, through efficient IT infrastructure monitoring and management.

1. Efficient IT infrastructure management
to go beyond business as usual.
Managing IT infrastructure efficiently is critical for enterprises to go
beyond ‘business as usual’. Today, enterprises are demanding a robust IT
infrastructure setup that delivers high performance, keeps real time Business impact
 Improved operational efficiency and
eliminates avoidable expenditure. increased availability and stability
of infrastructure
Here’s how Mindtree collaborated with a leader in equity space and  Consistency and control in IT
delivered operational efficiency, through efficient IT infrastructure inventory and change management
monitoring and management.  Significant cost reduction in
infrastructure management due to
The challenge process efficiencies, reusable
The customer is one of the world's largest equity firms and manages frameworks and automation
around USD 148 billion of assets. They wanted to enhance the  High availability of critical services
performance of their IT infrastructure, minimize outages and have a to the customer’s business
meaningful reporting system. There was a growing business dependency teams through 24/7 delivery
on infrastructure and applications. Rising operational costs and a lack of and stringent SLAs
alignment with business objectives were added concerns.
The key challenges the customer faced included:
 Operational processes and multiple ticketing systems were not
streamlined
 Enterprise infrastructure monitoring and incident management was
done manually
 Compiling the inventory list for infrastructure and managed objects
was challenging
 No dedicated team for managing infrastructure globally
 Lack of historical and statistical data

2. Our solution
Mindtree helped the customer transition from the incumbent vendor,
besides assessing the current state of infrastructure and delivery Customer speak
processes. We then set up an ITIL based service delivery for 24/7 systems “Mindtree is the only company I have
monitoring and management of the end to end infrastructure availability. seen who does the right thing and not
what is convenient. Even in terms of
Mindtree delivered the following: SLA, Mindtree’s focus is on customer
 Integrated platform for monitoring, ticketing, service requests, change satisfaction and not just meeting SLA.
and configuration management MindTree always looks for room for
 Detailed documentation of run books and procedure manuals, scope of improvement” - CIO
work, monitoring configurations, contacts matrix, dependencies,
deliverables, routine checks, architecture, escalation process and
standard procedures
 Structured governance model (quarterly reviews with executive sponsors
and monthly, weekly, daily service / operational reviews)
 Performance and capacity / utilization including performance monitoring
and trending
 Stringent service levels with reward and penalty model and detailed
metrics reporting
 Comprehensive service level based services and 100% service delivery
from two offshore locations
 Value added services included
 Managing customer’s partners
 Data masking implementation
 Development and testing of their cloud solution
 Contribution to VM deployments on production environment
(Cisco UCS)
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